RE: More on...."SPAM"...
BY: Shaun Ewing to Jonathan Roberts on Thu Dec 11 1997 08:51 am
OTE: DCTEdit v0.01
 > It can be found at http://www.cauce.org :)
    Here's some new taglines that I've seen used for internet mail...
  /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\
     Pursuant to US Code, Title 47,  Chapter 5,  Subchapter II, Sec. 227,
  this system levies archival / downloading  fees for  unsolicited  email
  messages.  For  a  complete fee schedule, send an email to this address
  with "FEE SCHEDULE" as the subject or the message.
     Any inclusion of my user-id in any mailing list without my expressed
  prior WRITTEN approval,  to include  the unauthorized reselling of this
  user-id  to  mailing  list  vendors,  will  be  met  with  an immediate
  complaint to your internet provider.
  /-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\-\
"By US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), a computer/modem/printer meets
the definition of a telephone fax machine.  By Sec.227(b)(1)(C), it is
unlawful to send any unsolicited advertisement to such equipment.  By
Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a violation of the aforementioned Section is
punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss, or $500, whichever
is greater, for each violation." A copy can be found at:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html
    I'm not sure how legally binding either of them in the US.  (No legal 
value in your country at all, I guess!)  However, the second is more detailed 
and makes sense ie. the part explaining how a computer w/ modem & printer is 
a 
fax machine.  If anything, it may scare away some would-be human spammers.
- Gremlin
... "Aw, mom, you act like I'm not even wearing a bungee cord!"
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